Top 34 Quotes About The Midnight Hour
#1. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom,
Ramachandra Guha
#2. I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine.
Wilson Pickett
#3. When the wolf howls and the moon dims
hope fades with the waning light.
Evil lurks at every turn as shadows waltz
across the ebony night.
Behold the midnight hour
where all of reason takes flight.
Grace Willows
#5. The darkest hour of our struggle had become the hour of victory. Disappointment, sorrow, and despair are born at midnight, but morning follows. I
Martin Luther King Jr.
#6. It was well past midnight, quiet, few people around. All noises had retreated. The night seemed to have its own resonance. At that hour, the city's a gong that was struck at noon and is not yet quite still.
Sam Thompson
#7. The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes ...
Clemence Housman
#8. A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom
Jawaharlal Nehru
#9. Glancing at the time on my phone, I cringe. Midnight. The witching hour. This was when Calease always came for me.
I hate midnight.
Erica Cameron
#10. Hours of the day were named for the hours of prayer: matins around midnight; lauds around three A.M.; prime, the first hour of daylight, at sunrise or about six A.M.; vespers at six in the evening; and compline at bedtime.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#11. I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond.
Patti Smith
#12. I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none - there were just snowflakes.
Pierre Trudeau
#13. But at midnight - strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin - then came the messenger.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#14. In that hushed hour between midnight and dawn when Morpheus' sable hands touch the rosy finger tips of Aurora and even the fairies are slumbering on their flowery couches,
Anya Seton
#15. The other side of midnight's hour strikes a herald thrice rung
Seer, Shadow, Sun - together they come
Sixteen winters hence - the light shall be eclipsed
Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire
Alyson Noel
#16. The time between midnight and dawn when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most palatable. It is the hour when the sleepless are pursued by their sharpest anxieties, when ghosts and demons hold sway. The hour of the wolf is also the hour when most children are born.
Ingmar Bergman
#17. Midnight,
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#18. I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.
Robert Benchley
#19. It's time, my children
When the waves rise high
When the waters run deep
When the clock strikes midnight
You'll feel the mark of Zero Hour
And you'll never be the same again
Lisa Mangum
#20. Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour before midnight, to see who steps into the darkest shadow?
Terry Pratchett
#21. THE SLEEK BLACK AUDI ROLLED to a stop in the parking lot overlooking the cemetery, but none of the three men inside had any intention of paying respects to the dead. The hour burned past midnight, and the grounds were officially closed.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#22. I've lived on the equator all my life and we never had to change clocks. Now they're telling me time goes forward an hour after midnight? What is this, Narnia?
Joyce Rachelle
#23. The dungeons are windowless. One hour is much like another down there, and for me, all hours are midnight.
George R R Martin
#24. There is a night that never comes to an end ...
The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving place, hurtling around the planet at a thousand miles an hour like a dark knike, cutting slices of daily bread off the endless loaf of Time.
Terry Pratchett
#25. The Christless cults and deity-dishonoring mushroom religions of this midnight hour tempt the Lord God. Will no one sound the alarm?
Leonard Ravenhill
#26. Your final hour," he said aloud, picturing the thousands of Muslims slaughtered during the Crusades. "At midnight you will meet your God." Behind him, the woman stirred. The Hassassin turned. He considered letting her wake up. Seeing terror in a woman's eyes was his ultimate aphrodisiac
Anonymous
#27. Always be polite to possible murderers: that was the twenty-four-hour-shopping philosophy.
Kate Griffin
#28. How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#29. Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
Samuel Johnson
#30. The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.
John Jakes
#31. Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
Charles Lamb
#32. Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
John Milton
#33. [Samuel Prescott was] returning from a lady friend's house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m.
John M. Murrin
#34. My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.
Vera Caspary
